THEY SAID WHAT?

“I never used to leave the house without a bit of make-up on. But the more you need it, the less you care about it”

- Actress Dame Helen Mirren.

“You have to be brave and not so invested in looking the way you used to” - Actress Jane Fonda, 80.

“I don’t think I was ever an angry drunk. Just a drunk drunk”

- Actor Simon Pegg on his former drinking days.

“Some of us are getting mighty tired of Scottish nationalist insistence that their nationalism is nothing like the other, nasty kinds”

- JK Rowling, below, creator of

Harry Potter. “I am lucky to do what I really enjoy doing ... I would do it for nothing ... That is the reason I have been spared the worst excesses of the mid-life crisis I have actually got happier as I’ve got older.I have learned not to panic”

- Actor Rupert Graves.

“When I was growing up I was looking for security and stability and I was sometimes attracted to older men. Now I find myself in situations where younger men are attracted to me, maybe because I get younger and younger. I call myself the female Peter Pan”

- Italian lawyer and reality TV star

Nancy Dell’Olio, 54.

“I’ve yet to have a phone call. Trust me. I went past Paddy Power the other day and I’m six to one on. I’ve got to put a bet on myself, to be honest. In fact, I may have even put £100 on myself. But I’ve got no idea about whether I’ll get it”

- TV chef James Martin laying a bet on himself joining the Top

Gear team.